, 1887-07-21
SALMON RIVER MINES.

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| what Correspondents has to Say OF
Their Richness and Extent,
A correspondent of the Northwest
Magazine writes as follows regard
ing the Salmon river mines.
In the Salmon river District,
which Is about four miles north of
the Ruby district, with Salmon City
as the central camp, are the follow
ing locations: The Lone Star, one
and one-half miles north OF Salmon
City, owned by Tacoma bankers, on
which Il sixty-foot tunnel has been
run on four-foot vein Of galena and
and carbonate ore between granite
and porphyry walls, the ore assay
ing 5000 ounces and 10 per cent. lead
to the ton; the TOughnut, on the OPP
posite side of SalmcC river, owned
by Spokane men, walls same as the
Lone Star, is developed by IA twen-
ty-four foot tunnel, showing five
foot body of 12O-ounce ore. The La
Euna, also owned by Spokane men,
is situated on the highest peak in
the vicinity; siXty-foot shaft on
this prospect shows Il strong
average two-foot vein of high grade
galena and gray copper ore that
average 400 ounces to the ton, be-
tween fine well-cut walls of granite
and porphyry. The Lady of the
Lake was found by Indians, on
which twenty-one.foot cross cut at
the bottom Of "a fifty-four-foOt shaft
shows all ore that averages 800
ounces of silver, with neither wall
yet found. Half mile southeast of
the La Euna is the Columbia loca-
tion, on which vein two and one
half feet wide was found on the sur
face, and three feet wide at depth
of fifteen feet, the ore being gray
copper, galena and carbonates, assay
ing from 200 to 400 ounces of liver
to the ton. On the Grover Cleve-
land, which is about 600 feet east of
the Columbia location, is found a
five.foot body of 1S0.ounce silver ore
with no walls, at the bottom of an
eighteen-fOot shaft.
In the Met-how district, on the
Met-how river, thirty miles west of
Ruby City, is the Met-how location,
which is ten-foot vein of free mill
said to assay Sl57 gold to the ton.
miles, by good stage road, north
west of Spokane Falls, on the line of
the Northern Pacific railway. A
line of stages operated by Il. w.
Young make regular trips from Spo-
kane Falls to Ruby and Salmon cit
les, crossing the Columbia river at
Wild Goose Bill's ferry, sixty-hve
miles out from Spokane; the trip be-
| ing made in two and one half days.
There are now about 800 prospectors
in the country. Wood, water and
grass is plentiful throughout the
whole country, and the winters are
not as severe as one would suppose
from the latitude, as the altitude of
the rivers in the country is only
about 900 feet, and the warm air that
follows up the Columbia is sucked
up through the narrow valleys and
canyons of the low mountains;
cattle and horses, OF which
there are quite a number ranging
in the country, as Il general thing
run out all winter. The country as
yet has only been prospected in a
few places; when many other as
good showing prospects are found
and all are developed into paying
mines similar to those of the old
Comstock, such an outpout of silver,
gold, lead and copper will occur
from this country that it will make
it rank with the foremost mineral
producing regions in the world. AS
much as | have neard about the
country in years agone, when some
old-time prospector would sit and
tell me by the hour of the ledges in
the country, the extent and rich
ness of which he would be
positive of, and which convinced me
long ago that it was only a matter of
time when the country wonld come
to I'VE front as great mining region
Still 1 am surprised at the sudden
sh" wing up of so much and such
ria mineral ore in such well defined
leads.